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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

But totally agree about Blue Monday

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Drum machines are to drummers what AI is to human beings ;)

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

@abc please let Joe O’Brien come off

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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The Phonology and Morphology of Australian Languages | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

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Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US

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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics! Asst or Assoc. We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.) faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793 🤘

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UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Congratulations! Great pic!

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

DEFENCE - remove barriers DECRY - apply tissues DEPORT - after de dinner

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/02/2025

The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The B in DEBT owes you nothing

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

They don't need anything from you. They don't care about you. I think that's the difference.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

President Trump’s comments tonight suggesting a US Gaza takeover are a call for a crime against humanity & should be unequivocally rejected & condemned by world leaders & American lawmakers regardless of party. Statement from @nancyokail.bsky.social ↘️

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I went to bed last night wondering whether the world was going to be obliterated overnight (I don't have that thought often) 😀😳

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

For too long I pronounced 'misled' as [mizld], i.e. past tense of 'mizzle'. I kind of prefer it to mis-led, actually.

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

and can alternate with /t/ (and doesn't alternate with /j/, usually)

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In Australian languages, it gets worse: most of them have two 'rhotics', /ɻ/ and /r/, and they behave quite differently in terms of phonotactics and alternations. /ɻ/ behaves like the other semivowels, /j/ and /w/, and can alternate with /j/, /r/ behaves like the other liquids to some extent

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I have a major problem with the term 'rhotic' though, for exactly the reasons you point out: that it encompasses sounds of many different manners and places of articulation including zero

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I would regard them as sound changes if by sound changes you include all realisations/reflexes of the proto-language inventory.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition).

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Based on an assumption of generation length/timing? Agreed. That's the weakness of this approach I guess.

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Thanks for sharing, this is super interesting! And indeed the implications are clear for Sahul

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I love #SamKonstas, and his performance on day one got me back into cricket after about 30 years of non-interest. But maybe now the media can go easy on the hero worship frenzy. We've seen enough of that over the years. #AusvInd

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Why's that interesting? Because it makes VP look a little shaky as a phrasal category. But on the other hand, it also makes arguments that VP is *not* a phrasal category in Australian languages also less impressive, if the negative evidence is just from clitic placement.

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

OK the point here is that, at least in some P2 clitic languages, clitics can attach after an NP (e.g. Warlpiri). So far, I've been unable to find good examples of VP (Verb+Noun(Phrase)) acting as a host for clitics. Object clitics don't count, they're just another one of the clitic string.

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

But can you get Obj-Verb-clitic or Verb-Obj-clitic? That's what I'm wondering about.

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Posting again now that there are more of us here: Does anyone know of a 2nd position/wackernagel’s position clitic language where VP can host clitics? And I’m only interested in VPs that have overt object!

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This is great. What's the source?

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What about that difference though, between whatever <th> represented, and the /ts/ in German and Czech? Also the vowel difference in Czech (and German)?

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Brett Baker @bjbaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Fantastic album. They were a band that just got better and better with age.

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